We, too, are the product of our favorite people - and they of us. This wedding-day thought, it strikes me now, applies to all of us. вЂњAs you fondly reflect back, know this вЂ“ these two people that we all hold so dear are amazingly special thanksВ to each and every one of you.вЂќ Indeed, as I stood as a groomsman beside my daughter, the Best Matron, who stood next to her kid brother as he and his bride exchanged personally written vows, all with the Pacific Ocean as a breathtaking backdrop behind us, I looked out at the sea of moist-eyed faces and was inspired to add this opening to my prepared dinner toast: Posh as it was, what made the occasion truly special was what also makes a shoestring wedding equally special - the gathering of people. No white doves were released, I suppose, nor did the couple depart in a hot-air balloon. If any detail was overlooked, any expense spared, I cannot imagine what it was. Attending a wedding always puts helium in your heart.ДЄnd so it was two Sundays past that my spirits soared skyward on a cloudless blue spring day that felt like summer when my princely son married the princess of his dreams in the wedding of her childhood imagination. Any wedding and every wedding, extravagant or simple, grand or intimately small. The Congress wanted to throw the country into the fire of discontent 'by protesting only for the sake of protest', he alleged.With apologies to Disneyland, it seems to me вЂњThe Happiest Place on EarthвЂќ is a wedding. Talking about Congress's Satyagraha at Delhi's Jantar Mantar in protest against the Agnipath scheme, he accused the grand old party of not being concerned about the country, but only about power.

If I have to hire for security to BJP's office, I will prefer an Agniveer,' Vijayvargiya says in the viral clip. вЂњWhen an Agniveer gets military training and leaves the service after four years, he will get в‚№11 lakh, as well as a badge of Agniveer. The sixty-six year-old leader's вЂclarificationвЂ™ came after opposition parties accused him of insulting the country's youth and the army. The nation is well aware of the conspiracies being hatched by this toolkit gang against national and religious heroes,' the BJP's national general secretary added. вЂњThose associated with a toolkit are distorting my remarks in a bid to insult the Agniveers. In the report of a commission made after the Kargil war, it was also suggested that the average age of soldiers joining the country's army should be less,' he said. 'This plan has been made on the basis of the suggestions given to the government by an expert team of three service chiefs and retired army officers. The senior BJP leader also claimed that the implementation of the Agnipath scheme is not a political decision. 'If I have to hire the services of professionals to arrange security at the BJP office, then I will give priority to those who have served as Agniveer soldiers,' he added. However, violent protests have erupted against the scheme, which envisages recruitment of soldiers for a four-year period and retirement of most without pension.ДЄddressing a press conference at the BJP office, Vijayvargiya said, 'Under the Agnipath scheme, the youth would develop qualities like discipline and obedience, which would benefit them in their lives even after the completion of the service period.' The youths to be recruited under this scheme would be called 'Agniveer'. Recently, the Centre announced the Agnipath scheme for recruitment into the three defence services for a short term period of four years.

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